Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the houses sell for around 60,000 pounds … and keen pricing seems to be the key to attracting first time buyers : |
| 2 | The court held that the practice of making first offers of work to a selected group of people who had declared themselves available , and the practice of declaring oneself available to ensure that such offers would be made , whilst an arrangement " of mutual advantage " to the parties , was not one involving contractual commitments or mutual obligation . |
| 3 | In 1986 and again in 1989 a Heriot 's pupil gained the distinction of coming first in Scotland in the Higher Grade examination . |
| 4 | They were in the habit of calling first at a petrol station , and using the air line to blow their tyres up really hard . |
| 5 | Now I had the choice of going first , , so if I choose to go first then you can choose the colours . . |
| 6 | The match ball , which plummeted from the sky into match judge Fred Trueman 's eager hands , conveyed by a female member of the 4th ( V ) Battalion The Parachute Regiment 's free-fall team , hardly left the ground as Chris Lewis bowled his early sighters after Pakistan had grasped the nettle by batting first . |
| 7 | When Tormey cites the art of acting as an example of representational behaviour , he was really talking about the style of acting first attributed to the famous English eighteenth-century actor David Garrick , acting which demanded not the expression of emotion but an accomplished technique by which ‘ natural ’ expressions of real life became distilled on stage by artifice . |
| 8 | Dr Coué , who , in the nineteenth century proclaimed the virtue of saying first thing every morning and regularly thereafter that , ‘ Every day , in every way I 'm getting better and better ’ , is enjoying a great revival . |
| 9 | When the idea of teleworking first came up , there was a fear of poor pay and long hours , but with this scheme we are looking at proper terms and conditions . |
| 10 | ‘ This is a real opportunity to promote the idea of publishing first novels as paperback originals . |